Senior Data Architect for AI-Driven Finance Platforms

Unity Advisory; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Unity Advisory seeks an experienced Data Architect to own data design across advisory engagements. This platform and design-authority role combines finance-focused business understanding with modern data architecture, platforms and governance.

You will lead architecture decisions, guide engineers, shape client data strategy, architecture, governance, and ensure coherence and quality of the data estate. This is a client-facing role within our AI Advisory team.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing and delivering production data architectures.
• Proven ability to design governed data models with end-to-end lineage.

Responsibilities

• Define target-state data architectures for clients and ensure delivery realism.
• Establish data modelling standards across ERP, CRM, and other systems.
• Integrate finance sources into analytics-ready models with governance.
• Design data foundations for AI/ML, including feature stores and RAG retrieval sources.
• Provide architectural direction for cloud data platforms, IaC, CI/CD, and observability.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modelling

SQL

Python

Cloud platforms

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

AWS

Azure

Job description

Unity Advisory seeks an experienced Data Architect to own data design across advisory engagements. This platform and design-authority role combines finance-focused business understanding with modern data architecture, platforms and governance.

You will lead architecture decisions, guide engineers, shape client data strategy, architecture, governance, and ensure coherence and quality of the data estate. This is a client-facing role within our AI Advisory team.